New Hope for the Family?

by Norval Glenn

David Blankenhorn diagnoses the state of the American . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1991

I Want To Burden My Loved Ones

by Gilbert Meilaender

Recently I was a speaker and panel member at a small educational workshop on “advance directives” sponsored by the ethics committee of our local hospital. The workshop was an opportunity to provide information about, and discuss the relative merits of, living wills and durable powers of attorney . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1991

When Families Fail

by Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Perhaps the most striking feature of our contemporary political landscape is the failure of the tattered labels “liberal” and “conservative” any longer to convey useful distinctions. In my own field of education policy, for example, those who get called conservative are in fact deeply . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1991

What Families Are For

by Gilbert Meilaender

In his engagingly titled book, What’s Wrong With the World, G. K. Chesterton argued that his fellow citizens could not repair the defects of the family because they had no ideal at which to aim. Neither the Tory (Gudge) nor the Socialist (Hudge) had an ideal that viewed the family as sacred, an . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 1990

Fuzzing Family Values: The Mass Mutual Survey

by Gary L. Bauer

By now it should be axiomatic that surveys and polls tell us as much about the people who conduct them as they do about those they query. What's involved is the census-taking equivalent of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the notion that pollsters affect the content of the responses they . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 1990